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   @kamertonaudiophileplayer847

   October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

   You can be not very accurate here. x86 Celeron based SBC can be more power efficient than Arm based. Surprise? For me too. Anyway, Arm based systems are cheaper and I selected Arm for a home server. Did you consider also Apple Arm? Mac Mini can be perfect for a home server, but it can be a bit expensive.

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   @Polarzbek

   October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

   Been thinking about a home server for ESXI for a while now and this is the best breakdown on hardware I've seen recently. Thanks for the video, a like and a sub from me!

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   @edsonormmota

   October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

   Wow..I got the same Dell to my home servers

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   @hotcher2

   October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

   Incredible job. Great overview of hardware options explained without requiring the audience to be computer scientists.

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   @gregbenwell6173

   October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

   I see a lot of these guys claiming you can run a home server on a Raspberry Pi, BUT I have to question the honest value in this claim, because the problems of hooking up storage devices to a Pi isn't exactly the type of computer you can actually store a number of larger files on!! And a Raspberry Pi, isn't overloaded with a large number of SATA ports so adding drives to one is nearly impossible, if you have a bunch of larger files as well!!

   For example my music collection alone has over 30,000 songs in it, and the hard drive I currently have my collection on, is a 3 terabyte for added capacity as I add music to it! But generally speaking the total collection in whole consumes nearly 2 terabytes by itself, and one I begin adding other files I want to share like photos, video and documents, I could easily fill a bunch of 3 or 4 terabyte drives easy enough!! AND keep in mind I am an old guy who has been working on and with computers since the 1980s, SO my collected data is pretty large by this point!! And while there are things I now long use like old software and some stored data, my collection isn't totally "sorted" either!!

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   @darkphotographer

   October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

   realy nice option this one ,is a rig i will consider getting in few years , o a epic , my current workstation is base on 2011-3 xeon i buy in 2016 , and my server is base on 1150 i5

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   @isamaru01

   October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

   Hi I wanted to know if you used this Dell with Truenas scale and if you did. Did you used GPU passthrough i purchased a Dell T7920 i can't get it to passthrough Gpu thank you for your time

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   @michaelac720

   October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

   I’m about to build my first home server and funny enough I’ll be using a 5820 aswell. I was able to get this one for FREE. The specs are insane! I9 9980XE, P4000 GPU, 128GB ram.

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   @TippanisSAPTraining

   October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

   HI , DELL T7910 can support ESXI 8 version as hypervisor. ?

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    @MrPedantik

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    I went with T5600 but could not get HDD ports to work. HDD ports 0-4 would work in bios but not in OS unless connected to Sata ports 0 or 1

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    @aaronjones356

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    This was a good guide, unfortunately with a 75+w idle this would cost me $25/month to run

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    @michaelwest6727

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    THANK-YOU I will take your advise. I will use my spear system to convert into a server. If I may it would be great to tell you want are the components and your advice would be truly appreciated!

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    @Geno5

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    I am retired and have always wanted to set up a home server. This is by far the best breakdown I have seen. Great video, keep up the great work.

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    @havoc_64

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    How loud was the server under power?/

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    @kellyvb9881

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    I wasn't aware that you can Install a SATA HD into a SAS connector, OR is this model only use SATA connectors? My DELL 7810 only uses SATA, as It has no SAS onboard. GREAT video BTW

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    @freddyhardware840

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    I was given one (Dell PowerEdge R210 II) by a guy from marketplace last month (Dec 2023). Now I have two more. R620 and T410 in an 18RU Server Rack. Now I'm hooked and I'm blaming that guy 😅

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    @geontral7244

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    Which cpu is better for esxi virtualisation i7 9700, xeon w-2133 or xeon gen 2 E-2274G. I want to create an AD lab

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    @ZeginMakesMusic

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    When it comes to enterprise equipment, atom is NOT cheaper than x86. I'm currently looking for hardware to use as a firewall. Every single name brand firewall uses atom, and it costs 4x what i can build a Ryzen 7 system with. I understand that comparing a consumer computer with an enterprise switch is a bit unfair, because of software considerations, But honestly they are charging three thousand dollars for hardware from fifteen years ago. Any consumer grade I t x motherboard With anything more than two cores that you can buy for under two hundred dollars, can be cheaper and a faster router than any three thousand dollar enterprise router.

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    @alieninstallation50

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    Thanks for the video.

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    @ezwider4652

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    Do any of the later models come with these flex bays? I'm looking for something that would take the Xeon E5 2600 v3/v4

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21. 

    @jtra3440

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    Did you use window server 2022 for ur OS?

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22. 

    @enriquealonso9477

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    how can i run the server on my laptop? im new in this and i am using blender and cad programs and i have in the lap top but i dont want to lose and i need more ram with the server. 🙂

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    @Devildog2049

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    Just bought the same exact system. I want to use it as a storage,VM and home assistant.

    My question do I need a powerful GPU or can I just buy a cheap one?

    I’m installing trueNas scale on it.

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24. 

    @omar_kob

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    I’m planning to buy a renewed server with this specs for VMware esxi and cybersecurity labs, what you think?

    Torre Dell Precision 7910 / T7910
    2 Intel Xeon E5-2670 V3 de 12 núcleos de 2.3 GHz
    64GB DDR4 REG
    Nvidia Quadro K2000 2GB
    12,24 TB (SSD de 240 gb | 3 x 4 TB 12 Gb/s SAS NUEVO)

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25. 

    @ronaldlebeck9577

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    You're making the same mistake as several other channels here on YT by claiming that a PC of any kind can be a server. They simply are in no way, shape, manner, or form a server. These little mini PCs cannot run a NOS (Network Operating System) like Microsoft's Windows Server 2022 — the install disk will not allow you to because they need a completely different CPU (like AMD's EPYC server CPUs or Intel's Xeon server CPUs) and different chipset. You want a "home" server? Go buy a used HP ProLiant server and start with that. Be sure to get a rack to mount it in, along with your UPS, NAS, network switch, slide-out keyboard tray, monitor shelf, and maybe a tape backup drive (or you could use a KVM switch to your desk).

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26. 

    @techguy4112

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    sooo many scammers on ebay lots charge $1500 for shipping lol

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27. 

    @Mavo1989

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    Huge over kill…. People for a home server just get a dell optiplex micro or a micro pc with a decent cpu i7 or i5 like 8-10gen with 32gb of ram and use proxmox and then learn about containerization and do docker containers and kubernetes half the cost and buy a couple and have a cluster with redundancy and add on a raspberry pi for pihole… dont need much even an old laptop laying around with virualization is perfectly fine proxmox or just a linux distro and do containerization.. the overhead on vmware or hyperv for a hypervisor eats alot of the performance along with bloated OS as windows GUI just do a shell install it still can be a domain controller just use sconfig and powershell…

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    @frankie-_-amazon

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    I'm putting together a server can you tell me if the specs are okay it's a ryzen 9 6900 HX 8core 16 thread 3.3 GHz base clock 4.9 GHz boost clock 32 GB of ddr5 dual channel 5600mhz sodimm a 1 TB m.2 nvme SSD and a 500 GB M.2 nvme SSD it has high speed ethernet Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 Windows 11 and an RX 6700 XT 12 gigabyte graphics card I want to run a thousand slot do you think that's possible

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    @suekuan1540

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    The de t5820 is tricky. I bought one that had 4 sata flexbays. I thought just buying the dell m2 nvme flexbay would work. You also have to buy a backplane for the nvme flexbays after taking out one of the 2 sata backplanes. The cables for the nvme flexbays fit to some connectors in the motherboard, plus the heat sensor cable. So, know your stuff for this model. Also the is a sas backplane i believe. I may resort to a pci card solution if the above is too much work as well as potential added costs

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    @Spractral

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    10:26 did he say I can build my own CPU if I'm feeling whimsical ? Lol… Good video, no fluff or Bullshit… Trying to decide how to set things up for myself and deciding what hardware to use is such a difficult tradeoff equation… I already have a bunch of random devices I've collected over the years but deciding what to use wear, and not spending (much) more money is difficult. I need to just set it up so my haswell i5 desktop only turns on if/when needed for media serving (but don't think I can even do WOL with my mobo… So do I buy a new mobo? Seems silly to do for such an old setup .. questions like this are hard to answer). I think there simply IS no best answer; this is a problem people are still working on and the home server environment is still in its infancy

    Anyways, I appreciate the advice.

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    @roberts.3619

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    Can you say something about power consumption?

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32. 

    @cliffordallen613

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    I need a server that can host more than one race at a time in a game called Assetto corsa instead of just my pc how does that work?

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    @danielhulan3058

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

    Please for the love of god stop saying XA6 instead of X86. Just stop altogether lol. We should make it a drinking game. Take a shot everytime he says xA6 (X86).

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34. 

    @2GuysTek

    October 4, 2024 at 4:16 am

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